Famous artists, when they weren't painting the covers for the magazines, paid their bills by doing art for advertisers. Some of the things they did can stand up with the best of their covers, and much of it is fascinating today for what it tells us about life and popular culture of the past. This is a small door that opens up into a very large cathedral of art.
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Here we find pulps devoted to the adventurous thrills that all their readers hoped might be theirs some day, or else just lived vicariously in the thrilling dreams of others. Danger! Warfare! Frontiers! Mysterious messages and treacherous missions against hopeless odds!
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Advertisements for meat, corn flakes, candy bars, flour, beer, wine, spirits, broccoli, peanut butter: Here they are.
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Begun in 1910 as a way for publisher Ridgway to tap into a new market, it specialized in stories of danger and thrills. At this time other pulp and popular magazines contained a wide variety of stories ranging from danger to romance (even when these are not the same thing). Its creation was a logical response to the success of pulps like ARGOSY, which by 1910 were selling hundreds of thousands of copies of each issue; but the focus on adventure was something new. It survived, in one form or...
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Automobile ads kept magazines going through good times and hard. High-ticket items, they could afford to pay for color reproduction when that was too expensive for most other products. Everybody knows something about cars! Some of these ads were created by the best artists in the business. And some of them are just fun to look at as nostalgia; or, if you prefer, ancient history. Trucks here, too. Also wagons and carriages. If you like these, check out this great website of scans of...
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A noxious weed, and an important part of the American economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tobacco advertising paid for many an editorial lunch and kept lots of artists employed.
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Here are the ads for the common everyday household things you need to have around to keep the place clean and running. And also the objects of beauty that make life worthwhile. A little bit of decoration, a little bit of dirt removal.
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Build a transportation system, and people and things will travel. Here are ads for all things related.
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Clothing and fashions pay the bills at our department stores and shopping malls. We pay the bills for our clothing and fashions. And advertisements in magazines told us what we were going to buy (or make), and why.
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Audio, and early video, and records, and entertainment. The beginnings of an industry that is still with us, slowly engulfing (or being engulfed by) the computer industry.
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Art prints have been around as long as printing has been around. Film, movies, cinema, as an art that moves, only a short time, but fully the memory of living humans. Books and magazines have been the subject of ads as long as the memory of humankind. Or so it would seem. Not only did magazines run ads for themselves and for other titles from the same publisher, they often ran ads for totally unconnected magazine titles. Sometimes they sold the space to the other publisher, and sometimes they...
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Mainstays of the advertising pages were personal items such as toiletries, beauty aids, perfumes, bath and facial soaps, and the like. Human interactions are important: Flowers, cards, notes.
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Health and medicine ads have supported numberless magazines over the years. Some publishers refused patent medicine ads, and some got rich on them. Ditto for equipment, which can range from something as straightforward as crutches to something as questionable and as "Violet Rays". Techniques can be as simple as yoga and as complex as sequestration in a private hospital.
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The (undated) first issue of Hugh Hefner's revolutionary magazine, the one with the famous center spread of Marilyn Monroe. Artist: Source: eBay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Playboy, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
Magazines aimed at men. A lot of cheesecake and spicy stuff, with a lot of adventure and sweat. You know what you're looking for here.
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ROMANCE specialized in romance and love stories set among exotic and distant lands, in historical settings, and in the face of danger and adventure. This was the second pulp magazine published by Ridgway, a company which had been successful first with EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE, a mass-market title printed on quality paper and aimed at both men and women, and secondly with ADVENTURE, a purely pulp magazine aimed primarily at men. It debuted in November 1919, and at first published mostly fiction in...
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Advertisements for outdoor and indoor sports and equipment for them. Guns, rods, racquets, balls; the list is endless.
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This archive is about art in vintage magazines, but there weren't actually that many vintage magazines about art and design. Even if you throw Antiques into the pot, the number is small. Don't worry; it may be small, but what's here will be of great interest.
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Bicycles became vastly popular in the late 19th century and paved the way (sorry!) for automobiles by creating a population that wanted good, smooth, hard-surfaced roads and plenty of them. Motorcycles were an adaption that combined the best and worst of the two. And then there were motorbikes, and scooters, and any motorized conveyance that could spring full-blown from the head of the American backyard inventor.
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Without cameras the magazineart.org would be a lot smaller and less interesting. Hail photography!
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Pens and pencils and paper and office supplies. Now we have major national chains providing these materials to the end consumer. Back in the day we needed to see ads like these to decide what to buy. Hey, we still do.
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Toys. Games. Let's play.
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More action and adventure! Fiction House's ACTION NOVELS published 25 issues in the period 1928-33. It was revived as a quarterly as ALL-ADVENTURE ACTION NOVELS in 1937, but only actually published one issue each in 1937, 1938 and 1939, before disappearing for good. Source: AHGTTP.
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Ad for Kellogg's Toasted Corn Flakes, from the May, 1915 issue of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. This looks like one of J. C. Leyendecker's paintings for Kellogg's.
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Food and Beverages, Breakfast!, child, spooning
Artist: Source: Vintage Magazine Seller ephemeraforever.com Restoration: magscanner
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There were at least three issues of this pulp, but even the experts don't have much to say about it, except "rare to very rare".
Topics: Rare Pulps, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
Always a mainstay of the magazine advertising pages, companies that promise to train you for a new job or educate you for a new role in life or society have given us images that have become part of our popular culture.
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Photo of Lilly St. Cyr in even less, strategically hidden behind content banner. Nudists hold a convention. Glamour girl comedienne. Wild gorilla on a spree. Source: eBay seller unclecrickey Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Laff, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
Adventure in the Orient! A continuation of ORIENTAL STORIES, there were five issues published quarterly 1933-4. A rare and valued pulp.
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39 home workshop projects; complete plans for 15 foot canoe. Source: Grenville Abernethy, who sells on eBay as banjoflier, and has an eBay store as "model aviation magazines".
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Woman in harlequin-like pattern, holding black parasol and with purple and black ostrich feather in her hat, stands displaying the fashions. Title: "Golden Jubilee Number: Fifty years ago Ebenezer Butterick invented the First Paper Pattern and founded the Great Fashion House which bears his name."
Topics: Women's Magazines, Delineator, Carl Kleinschmidt
Ad for the Trados Nose Shaper, from the March, 1916 issue of AINSLEE'S MAGAZINE. Comment is unnecessary.
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Naked woman wrapped in a bouquet with roses; a "rose among the flowers." Artist: Source: Curious Book Shop; photograph by magscanner Restoration by: Chad Wicker
Topics: Humor Magazines, Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang, metaphor, nude, nudity, seduction
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Black cat in pink and red Japanese samurai costume, holding open a fan, and standing underneath a blossoming cherry tree Artist: Nellie Littlehale Umbstaetter Source: Scrimbab Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Fiction Magazines, Black Cat, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
An assortment, a variety, a gathering of adventures.
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Woman being fitted for her bridal dress, while a couple of children sneak a look in through the slighty opened door. Artist: Harrison Fisher Source: the Antique Paper Shop Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Women's Magazines, Ladies' Home Journal, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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Two nearly naked Greco-Roman wrestlers. PHYSICAL CULTURE "Points the Way to Virile Manhood and Superb Womanhood," and is "The Guide to Real Efficiency." Artist: Source: Collector and author John Locke Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Health and Fitness Magazines, Physical Culture, nude, competition, Olympics, gay
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Artist: Enoch Bolles Source: Mark Forer Image Processing by: Mark Forer
Topics: Movies, TV, and Radio Magazines, Film Fun, the spicy Bolles covers and the movie stills, Film Fun,...
Usher in the New Year well! Should auld acquaintance be forgot? Not with India, South Africa, England, Scotland, Canada, and Australasia all drinking Usher's. Published in an early 1910 issue of LIFE, the Humor Magazine Artist: Source: Mariangela Buch Restoration by: Mariangela Buch
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Food and Beverages, Spirits, British Empire, choice, quality,...
20,679 physicians say "Luckies are less irritating," with number certified by Lybrand. A man in a white jersey says it, so it must be true. Ad for Lucky Strike, published in the August, 1930 issue of GOLDEN BOOK. Artist: Source: Cynde Georgen, Trail End Historic Site, Sheridan Wyoming Restoration by: Cynde Georgen
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Tobacco Products, Cigarette Ads, endorsement, lie, statistic
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Mary Collins Source: eBay seller unclecrickey, via Croaker
Topics: Men's Magazines, See, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
Money. Ads for those people who have grabbed onto your money, and will only reluctantly give it back to you.
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Published in the May, 1912 issue of MODERN PRISCILLA.
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Find here ads for instruments, sheet music, musical books, accessories, concerts; anything music-related. However, note that phonographs and record players and gramophones have their own section, with radios, televisions and the like.
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Marilyn Monroe Source: eBay seller unclecrickey, via Croaker
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Young woman swinging a badminton racquet, out in a meadow full of daisies; daisies shown on either side of her in a triptych
Topics: Women's Magazines, Designer, sports, competition, field, flowers, exercise, enjoyment, outdoors,...
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Artist: Franklin Booth Source: eBay seller ThomasC at American Art Archives, which also has its own wonderful website about American illustrators
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
Swim suits for women, in four models; advertising aimed at the upper crust image of people to travel in yachts and wear the latest. From the July, 1934 issue of PHOTOPLAY. Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
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Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Clothing and Fashions, Swimwear, beach, Bahamas, Bermuda, Bar Harbor,...
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Katharine II of Russia, as you've never seen her. Artist: Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
Topics: Spicy Pulps, A Variety of Spicy Pulps, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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Santa Claus, or actually Papa in a stage beard, has been chased up a ladder by the family dog, who doesn't like this "stranger" in the house. The Christmas gifts are all lying on the floor. Items by Joseph Hergesheimer, Stewart Edward White, Thomas McMorrow, Iasaac F. Marcosson, J. Frank Dobie, John P. Marquand, and Everett Sanders. Artist: J. C. Leyendecker Source: eBay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Weekly Magazines, Saturday Evening Post, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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Artist: John Holmgren Source: Mariangela Buch Image Processing by: magscanner Our Sponsors:
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Jean Harlow. Also, the new shady dames (of the screen) - (Will the glamorous heroines of Hollywood last?) - Joan Crawford, Frances Dean and Norma Shearer join Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Tallulah Bankhead as leaders of the new school. And, the love life of Jimmy Durante: A humorous tale of an at-home interview with the Don Juan of the talking screen.
Topics: Movies, TV, and Radio Magazines, Photoplay, Hollywood, stars, studios, location
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A motor car for the multitude: A recent development of the motorcycle. Small three-wheeled cars built on a motorcycle design. This magazine is still being published! You can subscribe to SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, or to SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND. You should also look at the books they have published.
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Choice Geraniums, offered for sale for your garden, in the pages of THE MAYFLOWER. Great color litho work. Artist: Source: Mariangela Buch Restoration by: Mariangela Buch
Topics: House and Garden Magazines, Mayflower, bouquet, seeds, gardening, flowers, decoration, fragrance
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Artist: Source: eBay seller ThomasC at American Art Archives, which also has its own wonderful website about American illustrators
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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Extreme Fadeaway example, as a woman in green sits sewing with black thread, all but a tiny part of her clothing blending invisibly into the background. Artist: Coles Phillips Source: Nancy Ellis Restoration by: Nancy Ellis & magscanner
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, needle, sew, fancy work, detail, disappear
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Toy invention! Big money for home workshop fans. Man with wooden animals, including a Donald Duck (wonder if he licensed it?) Source: Grenville Abernethy, who sells on eBay as banjoflier, and has an eBay store as "model aviation magazines".
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Photograph of Veronica Lake wearing a black evening dress or maybe it's a negligee, over a tan blouse. Content: "A Special Letter to You from Corporal Jimmy Stewart. Source: Dave Wills, who sells on eBay as dwills1000, and has an eBay storefront "Dave's Odds and Ends" Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Movies, TV, and Radio Magazines, Motion Picture, romance, evening, sex, actress, film, cinema, movie
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Goddess spirit of the Moon tosses out showers of moondust or stars or sleepdust or snow. Artist: Tony Nell Source: Photographer PopKulture Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Monthly Magazines, Cosmopolitan Magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
In the beginning, SHORT STORIES was a small magazine that published literary short stories, often translated from other languages. By the 1914 it had become a pulp magazine, generally featuring an action scene on its cover. A SHORT STORIES cover from its glory days is immediately recognizable from the iconic red sun that from 1917 was always found in the background. For many years it published two issues a month, but went to monthly publication with the April, 1949 issue. In the 1950's it...
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The telephone, technology's gift to lovers on Valentine's Day. Two hearts, and a cupid listening in on the party line. Artist: Source: Photographer PopKulture Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Trade Magazines and Trade Journals, Variety Collection of Trade Magazines, magazine covers, vintage...
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Source: eBay sellers Image Restoration: magscanner
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Woman in elaborate summer dress, with white parasol, standing in the garden and talking to her dog; in the background is a columned mansion, on a lake
Topics: Women's Magazines, Designer, Spring, walk, parade, wealth, fashion, style, clothing
Ad for the House of Kuppenheimer, with three men of wealth and style out for the day; one on horseback, for fox hunting, one with field glasses, and one dressed for visiting in cold weather. Published in the September 27, 1913 issue of the SATURDAY EVENING POST. Artist: J. C. Leyendecker Source: Mariangela Buch Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Clothing and Fashions, Men's Clothing and Accessories, magazine...
Artist: Source: Vintage Magazine Seller ephemeraforever.com Restoration: magscanner
Topics: Adventure Pulps, Adventure magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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Woman invites you to sit down and have cookies and a drink (orange juice? orangeade?), and admire her new embroidered table covering. Artist: Olga Heese bogart Source: eBay seller daysoffuturepast, who also sells printed materials from her personal website. Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Women's Magazines, Needlecraft, sewing, design, picture, pattern
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Artist: Paul Stahr Source: eBay seller ThomasC at American Art Archives, which also has its own wonderful website about American illustrators
Topics: Humor Magazines, Life, the humor magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
Man in uniform, delivering a package on his motocycle, stops to ask a fisher lad the way; "The way is pointed to the Indian Rider." Hendee Manufacturing, of Springfield, Massachusetts. Published in an unidentified 1915 magazine issue. Artist: Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: Mariangela Buch
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Scientific Mating: Happy couple, fully instrumented, their vital readings presumably well matched by electrochemical computer and read out on a meter needle. Source: Dave Wills, who sells on eBay as dwills1000, and has an eBay storefront "Dave's Odds and Ends" Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Science and Invention, a Gernsback technical magazine, magazine...
Ad for Modes magazine, with pattern included, from the November, 1896 issue of COSMOPOLITAN. Source: Mariangela Buch Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Art, Film, Book, Movie, and Magazine Ads, Magazine Ads: General,...
Artist: Source: Vintage Magazine Seller ephemeraforever.com Restoration: magscanner
Topics: Adventure Pulps, Adventure magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
The Ford V-8 engine makes quite a difference. Couple driving into the parking lot of the stadium for the big game! Easy to handle in crowded traffic; that's why so many women drive Fords. Published in the November, 1934 issue of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. Source: Mariangela Buch Restoration by: Mariangela Buch
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Automobiles, Trucks, and Wagons, Ford Cars, team, driving,...
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Topics: Women's Magazines, Modern Priscilla, Modern Priscilla, women's magazines, sewing, fancywork,...
There were plenty of pulp and pulp-like magazines that used sex as a marketing tool, whether explicit (and sold under the counter) or just as a theme. A lot of them ran only one or a few issues and were published by fly-by-night operators, but others lasted for years and anchored large publishing companies.A good short history of SNAPPY STORIES (to be added) can be found at the eNewsstand project.
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Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Modern Electrics, the first Gernsback popular technical magazine,...
